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My Son
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Tell
"The essence of all vulgarity lics in want of sensation." Con- sider this, O my readers, who are always being told that the essence of vulgarity lios ih too much sensation!
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But I would teach him these I shall never forget how, when
Now Ruskin was a grent artist own. I had been in the Army just over who realised the obligation upon Take the body first. My son things in a way of my would swim before he was six, That is to say, I would not a week, I and half a dozen other the artist to be a showman as box before he was eight, master attempt to give him a smatter- civilians held forth at mess one well. Light is not to be hidden
enters the of the lot, which means that night on the advantage of or bushcle, and Atchat! – simple set of carpenter's crowd. With its sleek, busi-tools by the age of ten, and the ten years after he has left bookish upbringing,
Angelo was right to blazon his ness-like lines and powerful. principle of the internal com- school he will have forgotten all
paintings on the best and biggest dependable engine, it is a truck bustion engine, by the time he about all of them.
coilings he could find. It was a pouring wet night, you will be proud to own, a truck was twelve
I would find out in which we were in the middle of Wilt- Similarly Ruskin, having which inspires a feeling of pres- In the matter of the mind I direction my boy's bent lay and shire, and the justly annoyed something striking to eny, said tige that suggests a price much would have him taught Greck then encourage him along that brigadier said: "Each of you it in the most striking way higher thari its actual cost.
and Latin, English grammar bent,
gentlemen will march six men imaginable. Having arrested literature, French and If I found when he was four, and a corporal on to the Downs attention with his sensational German, history, and geography, teen that Je still confused three miles from here, and make sentence he goes on to explain algebra, geometry, and trigono- oxygen with hydrogen and them comfortable for the night, that it is man's duty to be a metry, physics and chemistry, couldn't begin to size up a pro- You have an hour to get ready, sensation-secker and not music and drawing, and last, blem in algebra by the mere and in the morning cach corporal sensation-monger:- shorthand, typewriting and look of it, but on the other hand will report to me how you got "Simple and innocent vul- bookkeeping.
had a passion for irregular on!!!
garlty is merely an untrained verbs and was 'a demon at Need I say that it was the and undeveloped bluntness of double entry, I should know the corporal and the six men who body and mind; but in true NOTES OF THE DAY kind of brain my boy was de- made each officer comfortable? inbred vulgarity there is
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veloping. And I should develop Whereby the brigadier was dis- dreadful callousness which, in that kind and drop most of the comfited. There is no moral to extremity, becomes capable of every sort of bestial habit and this story.
crime, without fear, without
others.
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AS GOOD AS DEAD
No-one seems able definitely whether or not inpan is definitely to leave the Naval Con-
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But it warns me that in so pleasure, without horror, and Because, to put it shortly, far as I am a bookish person without pity. It is in the blunt ference; nor whether, if she does, knowledge has kindred grooves, there is a danger that this hand and the dead heart, in the article is being written from too discased habit, in the hardened bookish an angle. Obviously my conscience, that men become advice will be against excess of
vulgar. bookishness, just as a tanner or
HONGKONG-CANTON it will
COMMUNICATIONS
by James Agate
a bricklayer might warn his son
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still
And he goes on with words which should be printed in gold and set on the desk of every Cabinet Minister in the land to-day, sent by post to every member of Parliament, and blared through loud-speakers once a week to every voter in the. land. These ATO the words:
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There is a mean wonder, as of
a child who sees a juggler toss- ing golden balls. But do you
have any soricus con- Bequences. In view of the belief that the Conference would be Now that the Canton-Hankowwrecked upon the Japanese demand Railway is progressing towards for parity. It has been reported; final completion, there are pros- Great Britain has already taken pects in the near future of South steps to lay the keels of two £7- China having direct connection 500,000 super-dreadnoughts, even with Europe via the Hankow.mightier than the Rodney or Nel- But of that there is no Peiping and trans-Siberian lines, son. The development will be one of confirmation. Now we are going A boy who finds his way to the the utmost importance to this to venture a prognostication, having piano naturally will want to against taking a wholly material
read a good many hundreds of know languages, and a scientist view of life. There are part of the world. In his recent |
who is no mathematician is a people who when they meet a words purporting to explain the talk to the Royal Empire Society
boat without a rudder. Similar writing "bloke" say: "Ah, if only position at the Naval Conference.
I had your book-learning!" ly a botanist who is an authority in London, Sir Cecil Clementi we base our prediction on two made reference to this project facts: namely, that Japan will in- on roots need not know about
I want therefore to find some think that the wonder is ignoble, und to the need of a definite ist upon a common upper limit Racine in which, reader, you
in naval armaments and that the are, right to detect a highly thing which holds good for the or the sensation less, with which link being forged between other powers, Britain and America Cultured jokel the Canton-Hankow and the principally, will oppose her. We But whether my boy is going binders, and of bookmakers watch the golden balla of heaven' Canton-Kowloon systems. The surmise that the refusal to consider to grow up to bo ↑ Greek And I think I have found what tossed through the night by the trouble is that no junction has this formula must wreck the con- scholar, an astronomer, a profes- I want in an old book by an Hand that made them? yet been effected between the ference. It takes no very painful sional footballer, or a green- author so out of date that if you
stretch of the imagination to
There is à mean curiosity, as two terminal stations at Canton, reach the conclusion that Japan grocer, I should insist on his mentioned him in Bloomsbury largely due, as Sir Cecil staled; anticipates this impasse, and she being able to take down.a_letter_the_raised eyebrows would knock of a child opening a forbidden door, or a servant prying into to an ill-defined suspicion in the is prepared to withdraw from the in shorthand and type it correct- half the slates off,
her master's business;-and a conference as soon as it is reached.ly. minds of certain Chinese politi- Up to now the delegates have
The name of this quite too noble curiosity, questioning, in So much for body and mind. pricelessly primitive old prune the front of danger, the source cians that to link up the two lines merely managed to postpone the But there is yet another kind of is John Ruskin, and the title of of the great river beyond the might prejudice Chinese trade. inavitable. The results are some culture which partakes of both. the book in which the passage sand, the place of the great This is a very shortsighted view, thing else again. Japan has I would have my boy learn all occurs is the quite too back- continents beyond the sea;-a back numbered nobler curiosity still, which ques- and, when. analysed, it will be international relations in the event that I imagine a Boy Scout has achingly found totally unsound. The fact of a naval armamente race. Some to learn-first aid, elementary "Sesame and Lilies.". The pas- tions of the source of the River is that the provision of a loop observers believe she has already cooking, how to make a fire, sage begins with this sensational of Life, and of the space of the Continent of Heaven-things line between the two systemsTvised them. If a naval race is what to do with string.
which "the angels desire to look inta,"
nounced that she will revise her
imminent—and it is by no means mean very
would be of as much benefit to unavoidable-it may Canton as to this Colony. Hong- great tension in the Pacific. In kong, as Sir Cecil stated, is the any event, it will certainly bring Hongkong into the forefront of natural deep-sea port of South the picture and the strategic ad- China; it is so by reason of vantages, or disadvantages, geographical conditions which possession of this base will be more cannot be altered. A recogni- than ever apparent to interested
tion of thla point would result in
parties,
of
(Since the above was written, the closer contacts between Hong-Japanese delegates have withdrawn kong and Canton and be bene: from the Conference, which will, ficial to both. Sir Cecil, in the however, continue its work in the
hope of ' attaining `au course of his speech, also made among the other Powers.) reference to the desirability of
agreement
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the two centres being linked by policy have been so frequently aerial services. The two matters stated by us that they call for no are closely inter-related, and it is further elaboration. The ques to be hoped that the difficulties tion has now become so urgent which at present stand in the efforts were made to secure
that it is high timo further
way of an aerial agreement being] final adjustment of the matter. reached, will soon be overcome. Inasmuch as it is, as we have Issues affecting landing rights shown, related to the question or aro involved, but the more the aerial communication between the two ports, the thought sug- problem is studied, the more
geats itself that something might cogent becomes the argument
'bo, done by the conclusion of a that this Colony's aviation policy double barrelled agreement
I should be based on a willingness which would give Chinese planee
to welcome air liners of all na- the right to land here and also
tionalities, regardless of whether involve construction of the loop- reciprocal rights are conceded or line needed to link the two rail- not. Only in this manner will way systems having their ter- minil in Canton. Negotiations Hongkong be able to tako its with this end in view might rightful place as one of the big with advantage to both centres airports of the world. The be initiated without further do- arguments in favour of such a lov,
sons of bookworms, of. book every human soul is called to
sentence:---
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"It would be something to amuse the baby when you aren't home."
So the anxiety is ignoble, with which you linger over the course and catastrophe of an idle tale; but do you think the anxiety is less, or greater, with which you watch, or ought to watch, the dealings of fate and destiny with. the life of an agonised nation?
Alas! it is the narrownces, set- fishness, minuteness of your sensation that you have to de- plore in England at this day;—– sensation which spends itself in bouquets and speeches; in revel- lings and junketingo; in sham“ fights and gay puppet shows, while you can look on and sce noble nations murdered, man by man, without an effort or a tear.
I suggest that the foregoing. shouri de cabled in füll, with- out the omission of a comma, to Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler, and to every crowned hoad, President, Prime Minister and Chancellor in the world."
Now how does, this bang-on to my theme? In this way. I would have my son taught to eschow the wrong vulgarity and espouse the right. I would want him to learn the best kind of commonness, the commonness which was the property of cer- tain fishermen nineteen hundred years ago.